Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710 Topic Spain national identity UK race/ethnicity islands Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531 Topic Spain gender national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon UK
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24 Topic national identity race/ethnicity UK history Violet Winspear Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Kay Thorpe Greece Spain Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie gender feminism
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.4:383-396 DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings history Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Spain Greece Margaret Rome Elizabeth Hunter Violet Winspear rural romance Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Kay Thorpe Iris Danbury ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender